East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai

What the situation hands us

I was thinking, yesterday, that this writing thing is quite fun and all that, but one might also do without the ups and downs, the mood swings and the very bad days (yesterday was a very bad day).
I mean, hand pains, weird hours, and rewrites and waiting for news from publishers are all bad enough without also getting melancholy and sad and then back again.

And so I thought about this video – a nice, intelligent song, a quick discussion of manic-depressive artists, the truth about Los Angeles plumbers and electricians, and life in the countryside.
What else we need?